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Egypt Yellow Pages New Directory For Cairo And Alexandria
Egypt Yellow Pages Ltd, has just released its new print directory, updating its listings for Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, and the surrounding areas. Valid from June 2010 until June 2011, the new directory, offers the most comprehensive source for business listings in Egypt in both Arabic and English. The directory features an alphabetical index, which makes it... »
Egypt: Alexandria to ban public smoking
Image by Motor-Head via Flickr Alexandria is to be Egypt’s first no smoking city, beginning with a ban on lighting up in government buildings. Within two years, the ban will be extended to include cafes. Egyptians, the biggest Arab consumers of cigarettes, smoke some 19 billion cigarettes each year, prompting concerns for public health. And Egypt is... »
Granite Ptolemaic king statue found
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old granite statue of a Ptolemaic-era king at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria. The head of the Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, says the statue could belong to King Ptolemy IV. The archeology team, led by Hawass and Dominican archeologist Kathleen Martinez, has... »
Water poverty in Egypt to be addressed at Alexandria conference
Image via Wikipedia A conference on environmental security in the Arab world opens in Alexandria today, just days after an Egyptian minister warned that his country has fallen below the water poverty line and amid a government campaign to educate citizens on the economical use of water. The conference, titled Scarce Water, Rising Water: Between Draughts... »
Wataniya Airways to fly to Alexandria starting June 1st
Image via Wikipedia Wataniya Airways, Kuwait’s premium service airline, announced today that it will start a regular service to Alexandria, selected as the Capital of Arab Tourism for 2010, from June 1st. The new schedule will provide four flights a week on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Monday from Wataniya Airways Sheikh Saad Terminal to Alexandria’s... »
Marsa Matrouh district to be developed for tourism
A northern Egyptian town close to the seaside resort of Alexandria is earmarked for a large development aimed at increasing tourism. The $4 million Marsa Matrouh development includes 29 projects to accommodate up to 30 million tourists, with hotels and recreation facilities such as safaris and tours of cultural landmarks, a university and a new... »
Alexandria: 2010 Capital of Arab Tourism
Image via Wikipedia Egyptian Tourism Minister, Zoheir Garranah, and Major General Adel Labib, Governor of Alexandria, declared the initiation of the ceremonial festivals for the selection of Alexandria as the Capital of Arab Tourism for the year 2010 during the press conference that was held on March 17th at that city. Twelve other Arab cities... »
Egypt’s Mediterranean coast protected in reserve
Egypt wants visitors to discover its Mediterranean coast at a marine reserve being established near the border with Libya. The 383-sq km (150-square-mile) reserve, mostly in the water in the Gulf of el-Salloum, is Egypt’s 28th nature protectorate, but its first on the Mediterranean. The protectorate contains more than 160 migratory and local bird species, about... »
Rare storm hits Egypt
Four people were killed and more than 50 hurt as bad weather wreaked havoc across Egypt, pelting the capital with a freak hail storm and smashing a luxury liner into a pier, officials and media said Friday. In the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria, waves as high as a two-storey building pounded the coast, media... »
Hotels in Alexandria and Hurghada to feature non-smoking areas
British American Tobacco, Egypt (BAT), together with the Egyptian Hotel Association (EHA) in Alexandria and Hurghada, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with immediate effect, aimed at providing hotel guests in both cities with designated non-smoking and smoking areas. The initiative has been developed under the framework of BAT’s global “Respecting Choices” program, which... »
